Hamas

Over 400 residents and guests of Century Village in Deerfield Beach celebrated Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) on May 17 through a joint partnership of three congregations in Deerfield Beach. Rabbis Yisrael Edelman of Young Israel of Deerfield Beach, Yossi Goldblatt of Chabad of Deerfield Beach and Alton Meyer Winters of Temple B'nai Shalom all attended the 90-minute celebration by welcoming the guests to celebrate the unification of Jerusalem in 1967 following the Six Day War. "The year 1967 will go down as the greatest victory for Israel because of the reality of Jerusalem being once again in the hands of the Jewish people. Jerusalem has always been considered the...

Related "Hamas" Articles

Israeli authorities revealed Thursday that two Israeli citizens had disappeared into the Gaza Strip over the last year, adding yet another unresolved issue between Israel and Hamas in the wake of last summer’s combat in the coastal enclave.
Following...

A conversation doesn't often meander from the life of ants to the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but Michael Douglas, newspapers scattered at his side, is busy these days selling a new Disney film and acting as an ambassador of sorts to promote Jewish...

A ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists protesting Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip was boarded by Israeli naval commandos, who took command of the vessel. According to a statement from Israel's military early Monday, the navy contacted the...

A long-awaited report by a United Nations special investigative panel concluded that both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas may have been guilty of war crimes during last summer's Gaza war.
The report released Monday said the...

In an apparent effort to soften the blow of an expected United Nations report on the Gaza war, Israel published its own report Sunday on last year’s deadly conflict, defending the need for the military offensive and accusing Hamas of war crimes.
The...

A rocket fired from the Gaza strip struck southern Israel Saturday, according to Israel's military.
The rocket landed in an open area near Ashkelon, a city about 10 miles from the border with Gaza, police and army officials said.
It was the third such...

Israeli warplanes struck three training facilities in the Gaza Strip early Thursday after rockets were fired into Israel from the coastal enclave, witnesses and security officials said.
An Israeli jet fired a missile into a section of northwest Gaza...

Israeli planes struck what the military described as four “terror infrastructure” targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to a rocket that landed 20 miles inside the country the previous evening.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, spokesman...

An Egyptian court Saturday issued a preliminary death sentence against Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, making him the first president in the country's history to face the possibility of public hanging.
The ruling, involving a deadly 2011...

The Yarmouk refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus was already an emblem of the enormous suffering unleashed by Syria’s civil war — and that was before the militants of the Islamic State moved in.
Besieged, starved and bombarded over the past two...

The Palestinian Authority expressed hope Wednesday that its new membership in the International Criminal Court will deter Israeli military strikes on the Palestinian people.
Speaking from The Hague following a brief ceremony introducing the...

The Gaza war fought last summer made 2014 the deadliest year for Palestinians since coming under Israeli occupation after the 1967 Mideast War, a United Nations report released Thursday said.
In an annual review titled “Fragmented Lives,” the U.N....

To the editor: The Times fails to point out the reality of the situation in the Gaza Strip. ("Seven months after Gaza war, devastation remains, wounds are still fresh," March 21)
The article states, "Israel says that if building...

Almost seven months after the cease-fire that ended a devastating war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the militant group Hamas, the fighting's ruinous effects are visible everywhere in this ragged coastal enclave.
Reconstruction efforts have...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began Thursday to try to gloss over the harsh campaign rhetoric that helped him win reelection but marred his relations with President Obama, who made it clear he isn’t ready to move on.
Backing off his most...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, having secured a come-from-behind election victory for his conservative party, now faces an array of problems at home and abroad, some of them exacerbated by the ugly tone of the final days of the campaign.
Hours...

It is beginning to seem likely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to hold on to his office after Tuesday's bitterly contested national elections. Netanyahu's Likud bloc was solidly ahead of the coalition led by Isaac Herzog of the...

Widening a 20-month-old campaign against Islamist groups, an Egyptian court on Saturday declared Hamas a terrorist organization.
Hamas denounced the ruling, which appeared a death knell to Egypt’s already-stalled efforts to mediate a long-term truce...

Facing Israeli charges of bias, international legal expert William Schabas resigned as head of a United Nations panel investigating allegations of war crimes during last summer's conflict in the Gaza Strip.
The move came before an examination of...

A United Nations agency said Tuesday that conditions in the Gaza Strip are growing more desperate following its decision to suspend aid to repair homes damaged in last summer’s conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for...